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The Cows Are Watching

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49%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, atmosphere
Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
67% User Score Based on 24 reviews

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About The Cows Are Watching

The Cows Are Watching is a single player action game with a horror theme. It was developed by SilentFuture and was released on December 8, 2016. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Did you ever wonder about the rumors of cow tipping? Now it's your turn! Use the darkness and silence of the night to enter the meadows and tip as much cows as needed to enter the next level.

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67%Audience ScoreBased on 24 reviews
humor7 positive mentions
graphics3 negative mentions
  • The game has a quirky, absurd, and humorous concept that makes it enjoyable for short, casual sessions.
  • Visually, the game looks quite nice with an atmospheric night-time farm setting and decent use of Unity assets.
  • Gameplay is straightforward and easy to pick up, providing lighthearted entertainment without taking itself too seriously.
  • The gameplay is extremely repetitive with little variation, making it boring and monotonous after a few levels.
  • Controls are clunky and cannot be customized, which can be frustrating and limits accessibility for differently-abled players.
  • The game lacks depth, meaningful challenge, and long-term progression, with incomplete achievements and limited replayability.

  • gameplay

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The gameplay is simple, easy to pick up, and suited for short, casual sessions but suffers from shallow mechanics, lack of variation, and high repetitiveness. While the environment is praised, the gameplay quickly becomes repetitive and lacks depth beyond the initial levels. Overall, it's a light, bite-sized experience focused more on humor than long-term engagement.

    • “The gameplay is straightforward and easy to pick up, making it a great choice for short, casual sessions.”
    • “Don’t expect deep mechanics or long-term progression—this is a bite-sized indie experiment meant for laughs.”
    • “The gameplay is about sneaking out at night and flipping over sleeping cows before the dog catches you.”
    • “Lack of gameplay, terrible dog mechanics and lack of variation.”
    • “His environments are always at that level; the game mechanics are unfortunately usually always shallow.”
    • “The gameplay is extremely repetitive.”

  • humor

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game features a lighthearted and humorous atmosphere with funny visuals and sound design, offering some initial laughs. However, its humor becomes repetitive and less impactful over time, and the conflicting music tones detract from the overall comedic experience.

    • “Lighthearted and humorous atmosphere.”
    • “For the price of a mobile game, you get a funny game to show off your skills in front of friends.”
    • “It has a few funny moments when you first start playing.”

  • atmosphere

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's atmosphere is lighthearted and humorous, combining playful tension with a visually appealing, atmospheric nighttime farm setting that enhances the overall entertainment.

    • “The tension of sneaking around while cows silently stare at you is surprisingly entertaining, and the goofy atmosphere keeps things lighthearted.”
    • “Lighthearted and humorous atmosphere.”
    • “Visually, the game looks quite nice with a pretty atmospheric nighttime farm setting.”

  • graphics

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, -67% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game's graphics are decent but unremarkable, relying on pre-made Unity assets to achieve an acceptable visual quality. It supports 4K resolution but offers limited options for graphical customization. Overall, visuals are adequate but not a standout feature.

    • “The developers had deep enough pockets to buy reasonable Unity assets, so the game doesn't look terrible. There's 4K support but not many graphic tweaks.”
    • “It's visually okay enough thanks to someone else's game assets that it gets a pass on visuals.”
    • “The developers had deep enough pockets to buy reasonable Unity assets so the game doesn't look terrible, there's 4K support but not much in the way of graphics tweaks.”
    • “It's visually okay thanks to someone else's game assets, so it gets a pass on visuals.”
    • “High definition cow graphics.”

  • music

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The game's music contrasts its humorous visuals by featuring scary background tunes during gameplay and sad melodies upon completing stages, creating an unusual and striking atmospheric blend.

    • “It uses funny pictures and ideas as its premise, but then uses scary background music, and sad music each time you finish a stage.”

  • monetization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The monetization is perceived as a low-priced advertisement promoting Vis-Games Asset Store rather than offering genuine in-game value.

  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game offers limited depth, resulting in low replayability and less incentive for multiple playthroughs.

    • “Limited depth and replayability”

  • story

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The story is light and not very deep, but enjoyable if you don't expect much complexity.

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The Cows Are Watching is a action game with horror theme. Common tags for The Cows Are Watching include indie, psychological, psychological horror and funny.

The Cows Are Watching is available on PC, Virtual Reality and Windows.

The Cows Are Watching was released on December 8, 2016.

The Cows Are Watching was developed by SilentFuture.

The Cows Are Watching has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked The Cows Are Watching for its humor but disliked it for its gameplay.

The Cows Are Watching is a single player game.

Similar games include Stairs, Dollmare, Silver Chains, Duck Season, Decay: The Mare and others.